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Personal Opinions about the Social Security System and Informal Employment : Evidence from Bulgaria
Perotti, Valeria; Puerta, Sánchez; Laura, Maria - World Bank Group - 2009
In this paper the authors analyze the relationship between personal opinions about the social security system and levels of informal employment using data from a recent household survey carried out in Bulgaria. They compare different indicators of job informality, focusing on the lack of social...
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Building social protection and labor systems : concepts and operational implications
Robalino, David A.; Rawlings, Laura; Walker, Ian - World Bank Group - 2012
This paper presents a framework for designing and implementing social protection and labor (SP&L) systems in middle and low income countries. Although the term'system'is used to describe a country's set of social protection programs, these tend to operate independently with little or no...
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Labor markets in low and middle income countries : trends and implications for social protection and labor policies
Cho, Yoonyoung; Margolis, David N.; Robalino, David A. - World Bank Group - 2012
unemployment rates, and the need to manage migration flows and remittances. The paper then details a three pronged agenda based on …
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Public employment services, and activation policies
Kuddo, Arvo - World Bank Group - 2012
One of the responses to new challenges in the labor market has been the development and expansion of employment services and active labor market policies based on activation principles. The objective of this study is to document and review international experiences, predominantly from selected...
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International patterns of pension provision II : a worldwide overview of facts and figures
Pallares-Miralles, Montserrat; Romero, Carolina; … - World Bank Group - 2012
This paper presents and explains cross country data for mandatory publicly and privately managed pension systems around the world. This report is organized into three parts corresponding to three broad types of indicators. These indicators relate to: (i) the relevant contextual factors referred...
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Compulsory social security participation revealed preferences
Thanh, Trung; Castel, Paulette - World Bank Group - 2009
The study starts with a classification of the enterprises depending on their participation to the Vietnam social security. Among the enterprises that contribute, one striking feature is that on average the share in the wage bill of the contributions paid to the Vietnam social security is much...
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Voluntary pension system challenge of expanding coverage
Phuong, Nguyen Thi Thu; Castel, Paulette - World Bank Group - 2009
Since 1947, the Vietnam Social Security (VSS) has provided social insurance to public servants and armed forces personnel in Vietnam. In 1995, the Government merged the social insurance unit of the Ministry of labour, invalids and social affairs with that of the Vietnam General Confederation of...
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Skilled labor flows : lessons from the European Union
Kahanec, Martin - World Bank Group - 2013
EU enlargements and from the European Neighborhood Policy (ENP) countries. The study concludes that migration generally … economically relevant negative aggregate effects of migration on receiving labor markets. While outflow of young and skilled … workers may pose risks to sending countries'economic prospects and public finance, circular migration, brain gain, and …
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Social assistance and labor market programs in Latin America : methodology and key findings from the social protection database
Cerutti, Paula; Fruttero, Anna; Grosh, Margaret; … - World Bank Group - 2014
How much do countries spend on social protection? Do social protection programs cover all poor people? And, how well are they targeted? It is notoriously hard to find comprehensive cross-country data on social protection programs which can help answer such questions and allow to benchmark social...
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Improving access to jobs and earnings opportunities : the role of activation and graduation policies in developing countries
Almeida, Rita; Arbelaez, Juliana; Honorati, Maddalena; … - World Bank Group - 2012
Throughout the developing world there is a growing demand for advice on the design of policies to facilitate access of the most vulnerable individuals to jobs, while reducing their dependency from public income support schemes. Even though these policies are common to both the activation and...
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